Announcements

The Durfee Foundation has announced the 2025 recipients of the Lark Awards. Durfee’s Lark Awards support the collective care and well-being of staff at small Los Angeles-based nonprofit organizations with deep ties to the community. Each organization will receive $30,000 to spend as they see fit to meet the needs of their staff for replenishment. [...]

The Durfee Foundation announced today its 2025-2026 class of Sabbatical Fellows.In an effort to replenish the stores of energy and inspiration for our community’s most treasured leaders, the Sabbatical program offers awardees’ organizations a total of $75,000 each. This includes $60,000 for awardees to travel, reflect or otherwise recharge in whatever manner they propose, for [...]

Los Angeles, CA (February 6, 2025) — The Durfee Foundation has announced that Debra Suh, CEO of YWCA of Glendale and Pasadena, has been elected to serve on the Durfee Foundation’s Board of Trustees, effective January 1, 2025. Debra Suh has worked for nonprofit organizations for over three decades to build a safer and more […]

Los Angeles, CA (January 17, 2025) – The exciting evolution of leadership at the Durfee Foundation continues! The Foundation is excited to announce that its board has elected Halina Avery as Board President for 2025, with Theo Avery stepping down into the Board Vice President role. “I am so grateful, and delighted Halina has agreed […]

The Durfee Foundation has announced the 2024 recipients of the Lark Awards. Durfee’s Lark Awards support the collective care and well-being of staff at small Los Angeles-based nonprofit organizations with deep ties to the community. Each organization will receive $30,000 to spend as they see fit to meet the needs of their staff for replenishment. [...]

The Durfee Foundation has announced the 2025-2026 recipients of the Stanton Fellowship. These six exceptional Los Angeles-based leaders will explore responses to some of LA’s most pressing challenges. The Fellows and their inquiry topics are below. Chrissie Castro is the Executive Director of the California Native Vote Project, where she focuses on achieving justice and […]

Los Angeles, CA (September 9, 2024) — The Durfee Foundation Board of Trustees is excited to announce the appointment of Maria Cabildo as the Foundation’s new CEO. Maria’s appointment marks the end of an inclusive search process that spanned many months and involved the consideration of over 350 remarkable applicants. Maria will begin in the […]

Los Angeles, CA (January 29, 2024) — Effective January 1, the Durfee Foundation has announced that Paula Daniels, Co-founder, Chief of What’s Next, and Founding Chair, Center for Good Food Purchasing and Saundra Bryant, former Executive Director of All Peoples Community Center, have been elected to serve on the Durfee Foundation’s Board of Trustees, effective […]

The Durfee Foundation has announced the 2023 recipients of the Lark Awards. Durfee’s Lark Awards support the collective care and well-being of staff at small Los Angeles-based nonprofit organizations with deep ties to the community. Each organization will receive $30,000 to spend as they see fit to meet the needs of their staff for replenishment. […]